European Financial Management Association
2016 Annual Meetings
June 29-July 2, 2016
Basel, Switzerland


EFMA 2016 Conference Awards


EFMA CONFERENCE BEST PAPER AWARD ($2,000)
JARRAD HARFORD, University of Washington
AMBRUS KECSKÉS, York University
SATTAR MANSI, Virginia Tech
"Do Long-Term Investors Improve Corporate Decision Making?"



LARRY LANG CORPORATE FINANCE BEST PAPER AWARD ($2,000)
IRINA STEFANESCU,Federal Reserve Board
YUPENG WANG,Northwestern University
KANGZHEN XIE,University of Arkansas
JUN YANG, Indiana University

"Pay Me Now (and Later): Pension Benefit Manipulation before Plan Freezes and Executive Retirement"



GLOBAL ASSOCIATION OF RISK PROFESSIONALS (GARP) RISK MANAGEMENT AWARD ($2,500)
PAOLO GIUDICI and LAURA PARISI
UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA & NYU STERN BUSINESS SCHOOL

"CoRisk: Measuring Systemic Risk through Default Probability Contagion"



EURONEXT CAPITAL MARKETS BEST PAPER AWARD ($1,500)

SUK JOON BYUN and BYOUNG HYUN JEON
KAIST Business School, Korea

"Momentum Crashes and an Investor's Anchoring Bias"


JOHN A. DOUKAS Ph.D. BEST PAPER AWARD ($2,000)

KRISZTINA BUTI, University of Utah

"Firm Size, Idiosyncratic Risk, and Shareholder Gains in Corporate Acquisitions"

ZHENGYI ZHOU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
"Housing Market Sentiment and Policy Effectiveness: Evidence from Shanghai"